1931 ENGLAND: POLITICS : Labour Day: workers procession May Day rally in Hyde Park 1931

Date: 1st January 1931

Location: England, United Kingdom

Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS)

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Hyde Park, London ,England

Procession along road, Hammer and sickle (communist symbol) being carried by marchers /banner reading "Hammersmith charter campaign committee" /police on horseback / banner "First of May celebration committee - workers of the world unite" / marchers (men wearing cloth flat caps and overcoats) / marchers arriving in Hyde park - banner "Read the Daily worker - the workers newspaper" / women in procession / man carrying placard "Daily Worker - Bairns blood for pounds shillings ,pence (symbols) including woman on platform /trade union banner behind unidientified speaker on platform / more banners at rally / men and women listening to speakers / women in march /banner " League against imperialism" / traffic passing marchers procession / pan of crowd in Hyde park/ women in cloche hats wirh children/ unidentified elderly woman

speaker (with white hair and long black veil on platform ( possibly former suffragette Mrs. Charlotte Despard ) /"set India free " banner nearby

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